Sweet Old Wooden Horse Pull Toy with Gong Bell Wheels key rack The puzzle top opens and

The puzzle top opens and closes through three moves--first swinging out the short top piece of the lid

With little loops carved on either end

which appears to have been literally wrapped around her before she was pasted down

I love its roughness and the darkness of the clay body

I took a few photos with a 10 3/8" tall doll inside for scale

Sweet Old Wooden Horse Pull Toy with Gong Bell Wheels key rack The puzzle top opens andThis wonderfully weathered, beautifully spare old horse looks like it has been around forever, and the single rusty front wheel and large pair of red wheels at rear called gong bell wheels, as they house a bell that chimes between them as they roll look pretty ancient too! I believe most likely the horse was once covered in lithographed paper, and it looks like there was once a cord that threaded through a hole at front (like nostrils) to pull him